The Sun. — London, England, 1864-06-13 00:00:00

TIHE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containinz the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENTE, an e had Every Evening of G. It. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. THE CREDIT MOBILIER CONIPANY OF LONDO N (Limited; invite Tenders for the purchase of Mortgage Bonds of £5O each to the extent of £20,000, charged upon leasehold property of 1 rge value, and bearing interest at ten per cent. per annum, payable half-year.y, on presenta tion of coupons (which are attached to the Bonds) at the Agra and Masterman's Bank. The prin:qpal of the Bonds redeemable in three years. Forms of application may be obtained at 'he company's Offices, 54, Threadneedle-street, London (entrance, Hercules passage'. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden. Th.tre will in this week be five opera nights, viz.. Monday, Tuesrla , 7, Thursday, Friday, and naturday. Extra Night. Mdlle. Adelina. Patti, Madame Didiee ; M. I'aure, Signor Graziani, and tignor 31.1zi0. THIS EVENING (Monday), June 13, will be performed Gounod's Opera, FAUST E MARGHERITA. 3lat ; herita, MaDe. Adelint Patti, being her second appearance in that character in Eno - land ; Siebe', Madame Didiee ; Marta, Mdlle. Anese ; Mefisto'e e, M. Faure ; Yale. tino, Signor Gr. ziani ; Wagner, tignor Tagliatice; and Faust, Signor Mario. Conductor, Mr. Cogta. Commence at half past Eight. nt tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre •ta Is, 10,4. rid., 75., and ss. ; amphithea.tre.:2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had at the box-ofbce under the portico of the theatre, which is zpen from ten to five, and at the principal musicsellers' and /THEATRE ROYAL HA YMARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. Mr. Howe and Miss L. Angel. After which, DAVID GARRICK. Messrs. Sothe ern, Chippendale, Buckstone, Rogers, Clark, Weatheraby, c. ; Mesdames Snowden, Nelly Moore, Fitzwilliam. 7 Followed by (for the lir: t time) LOUD DUNDREARY MARRIED AND DONE FOR. To conclude with AN UNLUCKY MORTAL. Mr. Wm. Farren and Miss M. Harris. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE, Under the Sole Management of Mr. Pechter. Mr. FECHTER will perform HAMLET THIS EVENING (MONDAY). Claudius, Mr. Emery; Polonius, Mr. John Brougham; Ghost, Mr. G. Jordan ; Laertes, Mr. C. Vanden heff ; Horatio, Mr. J. G. Shore ; First Gravedigger, Mr. H. Widdicomb ; Osric, Mr. F. Charles; Messrs. IV M'lntyre, F. Morton, Raymond, Moreland, Clifford, Edmonds, Wall bank, Collett ; Ophelia, Miss Kate Terry ; Actress, tiles Henrade ; and GertruJe, Miss Elsworthy. • - - The Scenery painted by 3fr. W. Telbin. Notice.—The doors open at half •past 7, and Hamlet corn taences at 8. Box Office open daily from Eleven o'clock till Five. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING will be performed a new and original Drama, by 11. Slous, Esq., entitled LIGHT AND SHADOW. Mr. D. Murray, D. Fisher, J. W. Ray, J. Nelson, Scc. ; .hiss Stafford and ailss Caroline Carson. After which, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Louis and Fabien del Franchi, Mr. Vining ; Chateau Renathl, Mr. '"alter Lacy. LW THE ATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHL k 4 olo Proprietor and Manager, M. B. Webster. TIIIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART: Robert Landry (his original character). Mr. Benjamin Webster, .upported by Messrs. A. Ftirline, J. L. Toole, T. Stuart, caul Bedford, B llington ; Miss Woolgar (Mrs. Alfred Mellon), Miss Kelly, To conclude with THE AREA BELLE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, rt. Romer, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Crowded with rank and fashion.— The highly successful new Comedy, by Dion Boucicault ,Esq., every Evening. Re• engagement of those ce ebra.ed . ! r i.nc . l popular artistes, Mr. an i Mrs. Charles Matln.,wz+. Amongst the artists engaged will be found the popular names of Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Clarke, Mr. PAul Bedford, Mr. F. itobinson, Mr..Asnley ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Miss Herbert, Mrs Frank Matthews, Miss H. :I.lml - las, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stir.im-r.. EVERY EVENING, at 7, A DAY AFTER TIIE WEDDING. Miss Herbert. At a quarter before 8, an entirely new and original Comely, in 5 acts, by Dion Boucicaulr, entitled THE FOX CHACE. Characters by Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr..J. Clarke, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ash ey, Mr. W. Chamr , er- Thine ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, and Miss Henrietta Simms (her first appearance here). At 10, by par'icular desire, COC/L AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles Mathews. To conclude with SHAKE HANDS : Mr. J. Clarke ; Miss Fanny Josephs. Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. 11. SwanborouLth. THIS EVENING, THE SILENT SYSTEM. Followed by THE MAID OF HONOUR. Miss Ada Swanborough. After which, MAZOCREA. Mmirs. Honey, James, Fenton, Turner, &c. ; Misses Marie Wilton, Simpson, Are. To conclude with TIMOTHY TO THE RESCUE. Mr. T. 'Thorns, Commence at 7. THE ASCOT.—RACE GLASSES (the best), at CALLAGEIKS'sz. 23A, 'New Bond-street, W., corner of C.Aaduit-street. N.B.—tole agent to Voigtlander, Vienna. PARIS BONNETS for JUNE.—Messrs. JAY'S Mana2er has h s day returned from Paris with an assortment of the most elegant and fashionable Summer Bonnets, selected from the magasins of the first houses in that city. JAY'S, The London General Mourning Warehouse, 2119 and 251, Regent-street. June 1, 1864. NOVEL STYLE in FRENCH BONNETS.— French ta,sh 7 on has produced Bonnets for this month of a light go samer texture, whim aec.:mmodate the present style of wearing aim displayi,g the lady's h ir. They are of the most exquisite variety, and, though still adhering to the favourite colours of black. white, and neutral, are entirely remodelled in shape, size, and substance. Spe, lay imported from Paris for J AY' S, The London General Niourning Warehouse, 247, Z 49, and 231, Regent-street. COALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'. 24s. per ton. Double.. 203. per ton. Top 235. „ I Nuts... lBs. „ Deep 2ls. Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent The Weather--Sun Office, June 13, 1861. T PIETtli 011ETE R. This day at Two o'clock 62 Barometer -29.77. WIND—ME. ; moderate breeze, and cloudy. HIGH: WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tars DAY.—Morminr.;' , 'Th. 52m,— Afternoon, Bh. 22m. ro-Yoazow.-I.'dorair_g., Bh. 53m,—Af - "xueoni Oh. 28m. ; !„(4, *tut, LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1864. --- 4,- _ For once, the Civil List Pensions for the year are in the highest degree satisfactory ! That the fact should be so, is to U 3, Nva will confess it, a very agree able surprise. We have so often had occasion to reprehend in these columns the absurdity marking the distribution of the annual addition to the Civil List of £1,200 in the shape of fresh Pensions ! Here, however, for once, we have no objection what- ever to raise. The names of the reeigents have been exceedingly well selected—just the very names, to our thinking, that ought to have been selected. The little annual catalogue is—even with Lord PAL. MERSTON still Prime Minister of England—not made ridieulous by including the name of another "Poet CLOSE." One or two of the names, here, are entirely new to us, we will acknowledge it. But — w ith each of these unknown names (unknown, that is to sly, to ourselves) a good reason enoug h is given for the award it is coup'ed with. As—" Mrs. AUSTIN £6O, j u consideration of the services of bar late husband, a engineer, who diedwhilst engaged in the public serv i ce, and w improve ho had devoted himself to the sanitary " ment of poor dweLings." Or, agiin, as LEAF £5O, as the widow of Mr. I. LEAF, who, though of kfamble oriqin, was a contribgtor of articles of great merit to various jouraals." Nay, there is yet anoiher name on the list that we would particularise in like manner—to wit, "Rev. C. B. GIBSON £lOO, as author of many literary works and to thehigl testimony borne as to their value." Here, again, however, it is We who may be at fault : and for that matter the whole of the rest of the list is so thoroughly good that we have aot a mo ment's doubt of it that the selection last men- tioned is in a very signal manner judicious. Of course the largest recipient of a pension on this list, the one leading it off, in fact, is, as usual, the widow of a military officer. And although it does still appear to ns rather an incongruity to find the name of a military officer's widow entered upon the Civil List, instead of the moneys so awarded being restricted exclusively to civilians, or the:relicts or bereaved relations of civilians—the case here for once is so entirely exceptional that any objec tion of ours upon that score is upon the instant hushed. "Lady INGLIS" so runs the entry, here " £5OO as an acknowledgment of the brilliant ser vices of the late Sir J. INGLIS, during the Indian mutiny, especially the gallant defence of the resi dence at Lucknow—services to which may partly be attributed his early death." Who will begrudge an award such as that P Not one soul within the Three Kingdoms. Then, as to the rest of the names—the Names now entered, for the first time, upon the Civil List in 1864—everyone of them will be recognised as hav ing been admirably well chosen ! First and fore most on this goodly list there is the famous popular Poetess par excellance, and in a very especial man ner, the " Poetess of the People"—ELlZA COOK. It is significant of the character of her reputation that even in the Civil List the entry runs simply thus—ELIZA CooK, not as afterwards with the authoress of "John Halifax," Miss DINAH MULOCH, not as intermediately with the widow of the dramatist of " The Love Chase," Mrs. SHERIDAN KNOWLES. But, with ELIZA. COOK, it is otherwise— a sense of the fitness of things constraining even the matter-of-fact officials at the Treasury to enter in its simple integrity, without any common-place prefix whatever, the name of the poetess of " The Old Arm Chair," and of so many other exquisite Songs, Ballads, Lyrics, and what not, a name beloved daring so many years past, far and wide, among our English city homes and country homesteads. Oar satisfaction with the entry, here, is marred alone by the words that close it: " ELIZA COOK £lOO, in consideration of her literary labours, both in poetry and prose, and her failing health." Otherwise than for those closing words of the entry, words that will be a pang to the unnumbered admirers of the People's Poetess, this announcement is eurely in one word simply delightful. That the widow of SHERI DAN KNOWLES, and that Miss DINAH MULOCH, the novelist, have received each a pension, has already been here but just now intimated—the award to the latter of the two being £6O per annum, to the former £lOO. Another pension of £6O a year has been awarded to a charming Irish poet, Mr. WILLIAM ALLINGHAM : and a pittance of £3O per annum is set apart, at the fag-end of the list, towards the maintenance of a sister of poor HUGH MILLER. Excellent though the present year's addition to the Civil List is, it is still so far unsatisfactory that the Bunt annually placed at the disposal of the Prime Minister seems to us, as we have so often before protested, wholely inadequate for the re quirenients pressing upon that high official . in the yearly distribution of these pensions. Who could not add to the list the name of some well known intellectual labourer, whose honourabl e career, whose signal good services in the interests of his fellow-men, are alike passed by, year after year, sub silentio. One there is to our own certain knowledge whose name should be there upon that catalogue of men whom the country delights thus to honour with this substantial attestation of its sympathy and of its cordial recognition of noble services done to the com munity at large. The instance, here, is that of a man of distinguished ability, of the most sterling in tegrity, consistently devoted to the furtherance of the popular cause, one who has not simply grown grey in the service of the people at large, but who has exhausted all his energies in forwarding those interests to the neglect of his own, and who now, from the collapse of his individua 'ortunes, can at least look back to the devotion o a life to principles, his advancement cf which seems to be entirely forgotten by all but his personal intimates, is most certainly altogether overlooked by those who are in power. Yet in the particular case we are here alluding to—the name o 7 this champion of popular interests was constantly before the public for thirty years, and, beyond that, was directly and conspicuously associated with those who in 1832, carried the Reform Bill, and who, in 1846, secured the triumph of the Free Trade prin ciples. Soma nations seem to go out of favour all at once, first one:thing occurs 'nal apropos and then another, , until its prestige is almost gone, and it can boast of , only very barren laurels, Prussia is now emulat ing this very desirable position, and all the accounts that reach us concerning that nation seem but to confirm the prejudices already entertained against her, and to ratify the suspicions that have been from time to time engendered as to her good faith or good intentions. By this time the ciei:ised world can share but one opinion as to the down right barbarity and extreme injustice of the Berlin policy in Danmark. The details that bring us the minute particulars only confirm the ideas that have been entertained from the frequent outlines of hasty communication, as if this disgraceful under. taking against the rights of a free State, and these unworthy attacks on the interests of a brave people, were not sufficient of themselves to overwhelm the nation in shame and reproach. There are other rumours afloat as to the evil purposes and cruel in terferecce of the Prussians in other directions than the sho res of the Baltic. The state of Prussian- Poland i s very disastrous, and the latest accounts relate most distressing events as occurring in that l o cality. The ar rests are very nu merous , an d s o frequent, indeed, that it seems more difficult to find out who is seiz e d than to discover who is not ! It would seem as if the Prussians were resolved to outdo the Russians in the excess of tyranny, and arbitrary rule. The newly made the extreme commissaries of of police are most active in their exertions, and contrive to get plenty to do in their hard and harsh department. Their zeal outruns their judgments, and with an acti ve ambition, worthy of a better cause, they contrive to deal terror in the land that is unfortunate enough to c ome under their jurisdiction. The manner in which t h e business is carried on is perfectly disgusting, and excites the indignation and irritation of honest minds. The description of their acts s s a sort of revival of the worst features of that exterminating spirit and reckless procedure which have darkened the annals of history. The middle ages can really produce nothing to outdo the atrocity of these cruel sets, and the unne cessary violence displayed by the functionaries who oppress and decimate the ranks of a brave and una fortunate people. The rules and regulations are so ingeniously laid down and adroitly inserted that it is quite impossible to outwit them, and, indeed, it is very evident that the one end, aim, and object is to compass th e v i ct i ms i n the enares and entrap them t o t h e pitfalls so insidiously props red for them. The laws of Prussia are set at nought in order that the deadly and destructive work may be done. No one of any thought or consideration can see any difference in ordering a person to be killed outright and imposing tasks upon him that hie strength can not perform, and for which his previous sufferings have rendered him tnfit. To condemn those who have been wounded to the lAbourti cf cone:eta is simply brutal, and those who give the order and in• sist on its being carried out may parade themselves in their grandeur and boast of their achievements, but they are not worthy of the name of men. There is something so utterly repulsive to the English character in such a system, and, indeed, ECI repug nant to the feelings of all refined States, that one is mute with astonishment to hear of the barbarisms daily inflicted by a nation that boasts of its advance in intelligence and march in progress. The poet has emphatically declared that he counts the grey barbarian younger than the Christian child, and, according to this calculation, tyrants are infants in the community of civilisation, if not un worthy to be ranked as among them at all. The refinement, of torture is the last device of the savage and the delight of the barbarian, but never should it find a place in the category of the qualities that influence and actuate an ad vanced and enlightened nation. To order a suspected character to be shot might be called unwarrantable, but to condemn him to a protracted death under the semblance of the law is a base act, and whether suggested by the proudest or sanctioned by the highest in the realm, is alike a crime and an outrage in the sight of GOD and men. No excuse can palliate such a system, and its very mention must exercise a deleterious effect on the minds of our quasi supporters and adherents. One unfortunate youth suffered so greatly that he is now in a dangerous state in an hospital. The course pursued in all these cases is diametrically opposed to the fundamental principles of justice, and indeed not in conformity with the law of Prus sia, which only allows of such severe punishments being inflicted after a regular trial has taken place and a verdict been obtained. More than a thousand Poles are imprisoned under the Prussian Govern ment. This of itself speaks volumes as to the policy that obtains at Berlin, and forcibly declares to the world what are the tenets and observances held sacred by such statesmen, who can presume to vouch for the upright intentions and kind feelings of a set of men who can tolerate for a moment the perpetration of such atrocities as are inflicted on unoffending men, and even occasionally deserving individuals. One class of the bands arraigned be fore this tribunal is given up to the Russians to ill treat as they please, and very likely to torture to death in the end. No nation has a right to do such dastardly things, and unstable will be the prospe rity that springs from their commission. It is not thus that great nations attain their power, or a gallant people wins its preeminence. True bravery cannot exist with cruelty. The knights of old were not more famous for their skill against the foe than for their zeal to aid the oppressed, and their good , will in rendering assistance to those in trouble. :Jed any of these chivalrous heroes, without fear and without reproach, been c.►lled upon to perform the part of the Prussian officers is Posen, they would have replied in the words used by a French noble man, when commanded to join in some unworthy undertaking, " Among the portraits of my ancestors I see soldiers, but not assassins." It is truly de plorable to dwell upon these harrowing details, and not only must the reader lament the physical suf ferings of one side, but he must also mourn over the moral decadence of the other. Cruelty is the worst vice that can degrade human nature; it is the crime most inimical to the laws of Christian charity, and the inculcations of Divine commands It is degrading to the disposition of all who prec• tine it, and the most insuperable barrier against elevation of mind and excellence of heart. It speaks ill for the present generation that so many accounts should be constantly met with that bring before us the horrid and fearful pictures of wanton cruelty and reckless tyranny. Many will deplore the sad casualties of the unhappy Poles, but th‘i greatest losers in the end will be the races who oppress an injure them. Such a systematic course o selfishness and barbarity will retard the progress of civiiisation. It is a poor am ambition that will rest satisfi e d w ith th e commission of acts that appertain to long past days of darkness, and belong to obsolete times of misrule. It is a suicidal course to pursue, and a fatal policy to adopt, both as regards home and abroad, and a people abrogates its privilege and forfeits its posi• tion, when it takes this retrograde course, instead of standing forth as the beacon of progress and the herald of mercy and of peace. It is singular to notice how the inconsistency so common in individuals may be often traced in the direction of public affairs. As we see men in private life often throwing away favourable openings to pursue some object which they are very unlikely to reach, or which when reached may be very un profitable, so we may often observe some grand Government scheme or national undertaking carried out in simple defiance of the experience of the past, and with a total disregard of the possibilities of the future. The perversity or shortsightedness which forbids us to recognise the advantages really within our grasp, while we exhaust ourselves in fruitless pursuit of those that are unattainable, is very often forcibly exemplified in the administration of our naval affairs. Unfortunately, too, it does not con fine itself to mismanaging our ships and our sailors. but extends to the semi-amphibicus establishments of harbours, ports, and naval stations. It would seem almost incredible to a stranger that we are in actual possession of a harbour of such magnificent natural resources, that the largest and heaviest vessel can enter or quit it at any state of the tide, while whole fleets may ride in safety within its basin, and several miles of anchorage up the river increase its capabilities to an extent equalled by very few harbours, natural or artificial; and that we have treated it with such neglect that its present state is said to be absolutely dangerous. Yet this is by no means an exaggerated description of the condition of effairs at Cork, The harbour is admitted by all who have the slightest acquaintance with the subject to possess magnificent natural advantages, but although the question of our dock accommodation is so serious and so pressing, and although the merits of the fact are fully recognised, from year to year the proposed improvements ere delayed and delayed until we are told on good authority that in this splendid harbour not the smallest ship can be repaired, nor is there accommo dation sufficient to allow of any injury to machinery, &e., being remedied. A very striking instance of the spendthrift results of the " penny wise and pound foolish" system is afforded in the case of the Sidon. This vessel was to proceed to the Cape with 800 tr oops who were urgently needed there, and was coming to Cork to embark them, when, having met with some injury to her machinery near the month of the harbour, she was compelled to return to I'lynzouth, the nearest harbour, to be repaired, and thereby a loss of four weeks was occasioned, besides other inconveniences. "We are not surprised that Mr. MAGUIRE, who was the principal spokes- , m en of the large and influential deputation who waited cn Lord PALMERSTON a few days since, on this very subject, should have mentioned the case of the Sidon more particularly. The Prime Minister m ight learn from that one i nstance how often large schemes may be frustrated and principles of foreign policy disarranged by the lack of so necessary an assistance as a Har bour of Refuge. Mr. AtaCiulßE also reminded the noble lord that sixteen or eighteen gears ago the ME SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 13, 1864. Government of the day, of which Earl RUSSELL was head and Lord PALMERSTON a prominent member, distinctly promised that the required im provements should be carried out in Cork Harbour. The ardent partisans of this extension ought, ;ere haps, to feel grateful if they succeed in inducing the fulfilment of an offical promise within twenty years of its being made, but the veteran Premier readily acknowledged the claims of the deputation upon him. He said that he had himself been so strongly impressed with the advantages of the har bour that he had intended, when Sir CHARLES WOOD was at the Admiralty, to have taken steps in the matter. Fur some unexplained reason the execution of this laudable intention was postponed, and year after year has gone by, with all these advantages which Nature has dealt out with so liberal a hand to Cork thrown to the winds, while we are lavishing hundreds of thousands is vain attempts to rival them in places which can scarcely be put in comparison. We are in great want, Lord PALMERSTON admits, of dock accom modation, and where on the western coast can we find a better or more advantageous spot than a harbour whose depth of water is so great that a vessel of any size, armament, or tonnage, may enter it at any moment, and may quit it at any tide to find herself safely launched on the broad boson of the Atlantic P It is no wonder that the sister kingdom should feel some irritation at seeing the capacities of so noble a port completely undeveloped; but the feelings of jealousy and mistrust which once prevailed between the two nations are not now sufficiently forcible to serve as a valid excuse for inaction. For purposes of military defence it is well adapted, while the railway and the telegraph answer every objection founded on the assumption of foreign war. The Commissioners on Fortifications who r eport e d declared that Cork H ar b our was possessed of great ca p a bili t i es as a naval port, and three years would occupy ago, ; an important naval strategical posi tion for the defence of our western coast in time of war. They further say, " Cork harbour offers strong natural features for defence against an attack by sea, and the naval establishments at Haulbowline, which, though limited, afford ample means of refitting, coaling, and provisioning the ships of the fleet, are so situated as to be secure from bombardment by sea until the enemy has actual pos session of the anchorage. A nation that deale so largely in irouclads, and is so anxious to watch the rival merits of its field-pieces, should not forget this re commendation. Altogether the case does not admit of an answer or an evasion, and Lord P ALMERSTON, with his usual happy tack, readily promised to du alt that was necessary at some future period, and meanwhile he advised those well informed on the matter to present themselves before the Parliamen tary committee now sitting on dockyards. We trust the matter will not be again allowed to drop out of sight, since the establishment of a regular naval station and dockyard between Milford Haven and Plymouth would be of immense advantage to the shipping on our western coast, and surely no better or more appropriate spot could be found than that which nature has herself specially fitted for the purpose. ADELPITI THEATRE, Miss Bateman terminated her engagement at the Adelphi, on Saturday, with all that enthusiasm which she has maintained iu London for upwards of eight months, Called before the curtain at the conclusion of " Leab," and led forward by Mr. Ben jimin Webster, she was greeted with a shower of bouquets so profuse that she did not know what to do with her floral treasures, and could only carry them from the stage with the assistance of the courteous manager. Although the Adelphi season still continues, and is likely to continue for months to come, the tem porary retirement of the young American actress, who so suddenly and so pernato_ently became an idol of the public, furnished an occasion fisted for a speech, and the following, short, but much to the purpose, was accordingly delivered by Mr. Web ster, when the fair Western star bad set behind the curtain "Ladies and Gentlemen,—l am very proud to witness the ovation you have just paid to this talented young lady, and I think I may venture to say justly paid to her. To produce a svaieessful piece is a pleasing event in any manager's career, and these boards have witnessed many extra ordinary successes, but to produce a great artist is a rare event in any theatre, for they are like angels' visits, few and far between, especially one so gifted mentally and physically as Miss Bateman. During 211 nights Miss Bitterns n has in the one character of Leah excited the interest of the public, and their judgment is seldom in the wrong. She has proved that genuine talent, genuine art, will ever have its attractions even with the highest in the realm. I am happy to in for m you that Miss Bateman will reappear here on the 2d of January next, to achieve, I trust, in other characters fresh triumphs, and antil then she most gratefully, cordially, and re spectfully bids Sou farewell," The latter part of the speech was received with acclamations, Possibly, m a ny of the audi rice feared that the theatrical favourite of the lust eight months had taken leave cf them for ever. At ell events, the official prediction that she would reap pear after Christmas, and perform new parts, was received with tumulluous acclamation. PRESENTATION TO CAPTAIN SAY..—CaVain Jay and the members of his troop of Horse Artillery, had the honour of entertaining at a banquet at the Armoury Mouse, on the 10th ult., the Lieutenant Colonel of the H.A.C., Lard Colville, and a distinguished party, among whom were the Earl of Mount Charles, the Marquis of Ormonde, Admiral Stanley, Colonels Douglas and Palmer, and other distinguished military personages. Seventy gentlemen sat down to a most sumptuous dinner. The distinction which this troop has obtaine d was trade the subject of warm eul og y i n a v ery able speec h on militar y matters, delivered during the evening b y Lord Mount Charles, and which his lordship remarked was ina'.nly due to the judicious command and discipline which had been observed under Captain Jay. In the course of the evening the members of th e t roop p res ented, as a mark of their re gard to their capt a i n , a mass ive silver bowl, th w is hi c ch up bJ i a s rsthe following inscripti on :—" To Captain VT. C. Jay, who artilleryraised adtthacehlded to the thefi Hrstcoonm.mAisrstijouneriyn the troop of horse Artillery, pre sented by the gentlemen under his command, in token of their personal regard, and in acknowledgment of his great exertions on behalf of the troop. Bth June, 1864." THE CHANNEL SQUADRON.—PIYmouth, Monday, 10 a.m.—Wind, southerly ; squally. Fires were lighted in the furnaces of the Channel Squadron at 7 o'clock Captain George 0 ove short at 9, and at this morning. The screw ste amship Prince Consort, 35, Willes,illes, C. 1 3.) half-past left the Sound by the Western Channel. The Black Prince, 41, Captain J. 13. Wainwright, second in command, followed. The flag ship Edgar, 71, Captain G. P. Hornby, is now clearing the western end of the Break water, :Ind all is ready for the immediate departure of the Warrior, 40, Captain Hon. Arthur A. Cochrane, C. 8., and the Defence, 16, Captain Augu.tus Philimore. A HORRIBLE RUMOUR.—The almost incredible statement is made, says the London I?eriew, that no fewer than 40,C00 Irishwomen are at this moment wandering outcasts in New York alone, the mothers, sisters, and daughte-s of men who have been plied with drink and carried off to fill up the broken ranks of the Federal army. REMINISCENCES OF TILE OPERA. By Benjamin Lumley, 20years Director of Iler Majesty's Theatre, —Messrs. Hurst and Blackett have just issued Mr Lumley's long-expected "Reminiscences" in one handsome volume. It will be eagerly perused in all literary, musical, and fashionable circles. Tho work comprises innumerable in teresting anecdotes and recollections in reference to almost all the principal musical artistes and composers of our time, among whom will be found Pasta, Catalani, Malibran, Grisi, Sontag,, Jenny Lind, Alboni, Cruvelli, Persiani Tietjens, Branibilla, Castelian, Catherine Hays., Piccolcwini, and Rachel ; Taglioni, Fanny Ellsle b r, Cerito, Dumilatre, Lucile, Grahn, Rosati, &c. ; ftubini slsrio, Fraschini, Gardoni, ariani, Calzolari, Giuglin;' Lablache,Taniburini, Roncoui, Foruasari, Coletti, Belletti and Staudigi ; Rossini, Meudelssohn, Meyerbeer, Denizetti , Verdi, Halavy, Benedict, kalfe, &c, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, JUNE 12, 11 20 p.m. A number of notables of Copenhagen have pro posed the following address to the King " An intimate constitutional union of Schleswig with the kingdom is the essential condition for the independence of Denmark, and the development of her nationality. " A personal union of Sohleswig•Holstein with the kingdom would entail the loss of Schleswig and the fall of Denmark. It is, therefore, impossible that the Government should consent to such a solu tion. " A continued prolongation of the armistice is impossible, unless the basis of a satisfactory peace be proposed." THE BOMBAY MAILS. ALEXANDRIA, JUNE 11. The Ellora, with the Marseilles portion of the above mail, left here at 5 p.m. on the 9th inst. The Baroda, with the heavy portion of the same mail, left at 2 p.m. this day. She may be expected at Southampton about the 23d inst. FRANCE. BOURSE, June 11.—The market continues dull, but without any material variation in prices, Threes being now at 67f. Mobilier has receded to 1,127 f. 50c. Railway Market heavy. The market closed as follows :- 41 per Cents. 93 50 Italian Loan 7O 80 Do. end month.... Do. end month 7O 25 3 per Cents Do. end month..., 67 New Mexican Credit Mobilier..., 1115 Russian Do. end month.... 1117 50 Austrian .. B2 Bank Shares 3400 Spanish Threes..., . Credit koncier 1248 50 Home Debt .. — Roman RAIL WAYB. Cash. Account. 867 50 „. 867 50 990 987 50 867 50 .. 865 Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean New ditto Siuttiern Western Eastern Sari) in.ian Austrian Lon'b•srd North of Spain Saragossa.. .. Ditto to Barcelona 652 50 .. 648 75 501 25 .. - - 463 75 .. 463 75 368 75 .. 367 50 402 50 405 - 532 50 .. 635 - 440 - .. 442 50 6t7 53 .. 570 - CHINA. We take the following summary of news from the China Overland Mail of the 29th of April : " We reported in our last issue that Colonel Gor don's forces had met with a reverse, owing no doubt to the Colonel not being able to be present in the field in consequence of a wound received at Kintang. We have now to state that Col. Gordon has recovered from his wound, and is again in the field. He has been successful as usual, On the 11th inst. he attacked the rebels at a place called Waisoo, where they were stroagly intrenched, and some what nnm,raue. "The reports which have reached us state that the Taepings were rather severely cut up, the line of retreat being literally strewed with dead. Previous to the action the Taepings mustered over 15,000 strong, while the Imperialists were not more than 10,000. These rebels ha ring been dispersed and their return to garrison prevented, the Impe rialist troops next made a move upon Cbang.chow too, which city they are now besieging. The seven officers whom we reported as missing were found dead, and their bodies have been duly interred. " To all appearance the crushing of the Taeping rebellion is simply a work of time, and it has been affirmed that four months more will put an end to " Our dates from Pekin are to the 21st ult., when everything was moving quietly in the capitals "From the Northern Ports we have no intelli gence of importance. "With regard to Shanghai and the Yang-teze river, there is, fortunately, not much to narrate, rowdyism and foreign scoundreliem having bten rather quiet of late. " The ports on the coast furnish no intelligence, and everything is quiet at Manilla and Canton." WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, June 12. The R , ,yal Mail Company's steamship Seine, Captain Revett, with the above mails, has arrived. She brings 242 passengers, amongst whom is Senor Salayer y Mezarredo, Special Commissioner to Peru, and Minister of H.C.M. to Bolivia. The Seine has on freight, gold bullion £137,362; gold coin, £6,250 ; silver bullion, £67,251 ; silver coin, £12,027 ; pearls, £B9O ; also the following cargo-162 serous cochineal, 14 serons indigo, 242 serons bark, 15 turtle, 9 packages hats, 162 bales indiarubber, 245 bags cocoa, 133 bales cotton, and 124 packages sundries. . Dates by this mail are—Honduras, May 16; Colon, 21; Jamaica, 24; Demerara, 23 ; Tobago, 22; Trinidad, 21; Barbadoes, 26; Grenada, 25; St Vincent, 25; St. Lucia, 25 ; Martinique, 27 ; Antigua, 27 ; Montserrat, 28; 6(. Kitt's, 28 ; and St. Thomas, 29. H.B.M. snip Cameleon left Vath7ouver's Island the latter part of April for the Modem; coast, and thence for Panama, to relieve the Devastation• Her Majesty's ship Tribune, which left PanOna on the 25th February, and sailed the whole passage, arrived at Ebquimalt about the middle of April. Tne Sutlej was expected at Ebquimalt, after a cruise round the Polynesian Islands. The blockade of Acapulco Mexican coast con_ tinned. About 8,000 bales of cotton are said to be lying at Acapulco for shipment. The Salvador, from the Central American ports, arrived at Panama on the Bth. The Congress at Costa Rica opened its session on the Ist. In Hon duras General Alvarez had given in his adherence to the Government of Medina, and received full amnesty for his attempted rebellion. The barque Ysaleo, eight months from England, arrived at La Union April 30. On the 26th she rendered assistance to the English barque Annie Powell, which had parted one chain and was drag ging towards the surf, and succeeded in towing her off. News from Buenaventura says the General Go• vernment had acknowledged the existing Govern ment in the State of Antioquia. ANECDOTES OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON lII. With the future Emperor of France, when an exile in England, I had been well acquainted. Ho had been a constant subscriber to Her Majesty's Theatre, was a frequent guest at my house, and had assisted at the afternoon fetes given by me at my residence, The Chancellor's, at Fulham, where he had entered heart and soul into the amusements of the hour. Frequenters of these champetres entertain ments may remember one occasion when Prince Louis Napoleon figured in the same quadrille with Taglioni, eerie:, and Carlotta Grisi, having the director of Her Majesty's Theatre vis-a-ais. The Prince and I frequently dined in company at Gore House, the residence of the late Countess of Blessington, where all that was distinguished in literature and art was constantly assembled; and it may be worth recording, in connection with the Prince's known firm reli ance on his destiny that at one of these dinners, when Count d'Orsay was expatiating on the evidences that had come before him of the popularity of the Prince (although, at that time, the law forbidding any member of the Bonaparte family to enter the country was still in force), the future Emperor sat silent with a significant smile upon his face, the moaning of which none could fail to interpret. On another occasion, when I was alluding to the part played by General Cavaignac in June, 1818, in firing upon the people after the emeute had been quelled, the Prince drily, but in an earnest manner, remarked, "That man is clearing the way for me."—.Lumley's Reminiscences of the Opera. CLOCI WORK IN ENGLAND.—" As a sample of English clock work on a l arge sca l e, th e wor k s o f this are probably the finest fins hed that have ever been seen in this country—no chronometer could be fitted with more perfect and carefully adjusted mechanisen."—Times, June li, 1862. J. W Benson having erected steam power and improved machinery for clock making at the manufactory, Ludgatc-hill, will be glad to furnish to clergymen, architects, and committees estimates and specific tions of every description of norological machine, especially cathedral and public clocks, chiming tunes on any number of bells. A descriptive pamph,et on church clocks post free for one stamp. Watch and cock maker by warrant of appointment to ILIt.H. the Prince of Wales, and maieer o the great clock for the Exhibition, 1862. Manufactory, Lud gate-hill, Loclon. Nstablithed 1749,--EAdvt.] LITERATURE, Playing at Zonks, Three Months in an English Mona,: t erY• A Per. Banal Narrative. By Charles Walker. One vol., pp. 299. Murray and Co. The gravity with which this narrative is written throughout—very cleverly written by the way—is something excessively delightful. If not penned by Mr. Walker literally in nubibus, it certainly reads for all the world as though, while writing it, the author of the book had been held (say by Oct force, not to say by very odd force, after the manner of our tables and chairs a few years ago) in a somewhat analogous position to Mahomet's coffin. Either— he has gone too far ! Or—he has not gone far enough! His creed is seemingly neither the one thing nor the other. His book is very much of the same uncertain, indeterminate character. What we are here expected to sit dcwn to and devour, is, in homely parlance, neither fish, nor flesh, nor yet even good red herring. A Catholic monk in com munion with the See of Rome, we can all of us per fectly well comprehend. But—a Protestant monk ! The terms are irreconcileable. It is an incongruity of phrase, as jarring and discordant of its kind as Major Yelverton's answer to the priest who married him on that memorable morning to Miss Theresa Longworth over in Ireland—his answer to the in quiry of Father Mooney What religion he was of, whether Protestant or Catholic, " I am a Protestant. Catholic !" It distracts one's ideas. It sets one's teeth on edge, like a discord in music or a • false quan tity in a latin recitation. One thing or the other, we would say, both to Mr. Walker, the author of this book, and to Mr. Lytle, the hero of it—the latter better known not only to the reader of it, but pre viously through the newspapers to the public at large as " Brother Ignatius." Here, in the book as its frontispiece, is the portrait of Brother Ignatius— 'in full costume as Brother Ignatius, And looking at this picture, it is quite manifest in every line of it that—unlike the real monks—Brother Ignatius was very carefully posed by the photographer. The effect being—not unnaturally—as is also the case in regard to the effect of the written narrative celebrating the history of Brother Ignatius—a regular " poser !" Looking at it—it fairly bewilders one. For here in this limning of a Protestant clergyman—a comely gentleman enough in himself evidently, but rather given to the fantastical in the way of mas querading—we behold the effigy not, of a Paeson (so far as appearances go) but of a genuine Monk : an embroidered stole upon the table by his side, a crucifix near it clasped in his left hand, in the grasp of his right a breviary, drooping from his shoulders a cowl, suspended from his girdle a Rosary ! A Rosary, it:will be remembered, having so manydecades of the ave tnaria—and therefore imply ing on the part of the wearer of it, devotions " rather" out of the way for a Protestant clergyman! However, the fact evidently is, judging from all we have ever heard of Mr. Lyne, alias Brother Ignatius, pre viously to the publication of Mr. Walker's book about him and his doings, and now very much more fully from the work itself—this enthusiastic Curate of St. Peter's, Plymouth, near neighbour of Miss Sellon, of the Proteetant Conventual Establishment in that place—this Rev. Mr. Lyne, otherwise Brother Ignatius, has been all along bent upon striking out for himself also a via media beiween Protestantism and Catholicism ! And he has struck it out in so eccentric a manner that we doubt not, by both alike, he will be regarded as not in the least bit in the world orthodox. The English of it all is, as our heading to these remarks intimates, that Brother Ignatius and his companions are doing all this while nothing but simply Playing at Monks. Reading the record of it all as here jotted down, very gravely by Mr. Charles Walker, it as if we were spirited away to a strange kind of a whimsical, Clerical Arcadia. Only it is an Arcadia —where the people eat suet dumplings, and dearly love 4 comfortable gossip over a cup of tea. Proof positive as to which latter particulars may be found here in the following naive entry :—" Sunde.ys, I must confess, were not the mot pleasant days in Claydon. We missed the active bustling work of the other days and the hours seemed in consequence to drag somewhat. The time between the hours' was spent in reading—in the morning several chapters of the Old Testament; in the afternoon, any book we chose to select from our little stock. Vespers were said at half-past five, so we really had a quiet tea on Sundays; and as that meal was seaved in the parlour ou all festivals, and conversation allowed, it was quite a social meal." As to the dumplings, now suet, now sweet, the former, it appears, are devoured by the brethren on Tues days, Thursdays, and Saturdays, the latter (" hard," according to Mr. Walker's authority for it, and therefore we fear extremely indigestible) onWedriee. days and Fridays—the Sunday meal being rendered palatable by the substitution of a nice pudding for either the hard or the suet. Claydon is the scene of Brother Ignatius and Co.'s monastic observances. And there it is they are at it perpetually day and night with Lands, Prime,Terc, Sext,Nones, Vespers, and Complin. Here is the first taste of the mid night discipline by one of the unsophisticated followers of Mr. Lyne, on originally coming to Clay don, and there roused in the dead of night by the flare of a big waxcandle brought into the Novice's steeping-room by one of the Brothers : " The light, reflecting on his face, over which the hood was drawn, and gave a peculiar look to his features, dis ordered as they were by an abrupt arousing from sleep; and only half awake myself, I anticipated some sudden cause of alarm, the particulars of which the good Brother had come to communicate to me; and inquired, I fear in a very unmonastic tone, what was the matter ? I soon learnt that this was a summons to Nocturne, or the night office, which begins at 2 a.m., and lasts till between 3 and 4. The brothers sleep in their habits, and he whose turn it is to a , - ,vaken the others goes round from bed to bed saying, Benedic,Zmus Domino (let us bless the Lord), and each brother, sta:ting up, replies, Deo Gratias (thanks be to God). It was tti this solemn greeting of the brother that I inadvertently replied in the manner I have mentioned. I was soon ready to accL`ropany the brother, and in a few minutes a dozen strokes or so of the bell announced to such of the villagers as were awake that Nocturns were about to commence." E❑ough, however. Gravely though the book is written—it is quite impossible, we take it, that it should be read with a serious face ciiher by Catholic or by ProteEtant. The book is an eccentricity, as the career of the hero of it is an eccentricity. Both of them, probably, very well• intentioned—but still for all that, only to be looked at, from either side' from the right hand or !rem the left, under an aspect intensely ridiculous. SIGNOR ARDITI'S MORNING CONCERT.—This talented and able artiste has announced his annual grand morning concert for Friday, the 17th, at Her Majesty's Theatre, and ihe programme is quite worthy the occasion. Each of the three parts into which the concert is divided contains the names of the most eminent musicians of the day both vocal and instrumental, and thus an array ot talent is presented of an unusual description. The first part will consist of selections from Rossini's " Stabat Mater," the solo parts being sustained by Madlles. Titiena, Lem mans Sherrington, and Trebelli, and Signori Giuglini, Gardoni, Junca, and Mr Santley. The second will e mbrace selections from "Robert le Diable," "F aust," and "Don Giovanni," with a groat variety of musical gems of every description, one of the most p rominent being Madame, Arabella Guddard's piaraforte c oncerto in G Minor. Arditi s canto " La Garibaldina" is also to be performed, together with a new grand duo for Madame Goddard and Mr Car. rodus. The third an d concluding part will be the third act of Falstaff, with an incidental ballet. The above is a very brief outline of the e ntertainment, but the faro announced of Signor Arditi's concert will be quite suffi c i ent to ensure a brilliant and crowded audience. In order that the whole hour of the perfor mance may tie satisfact or il y given, the for the commencement of the concert has been set for half. past one. DIVINE SERVICE IN COLLEGIATE SCHOOLS, The Bishop of Oxford's bill, before the House of Lords, proposes the mastersto giv e (being pwe r to the Bishop t o li cense one or more of reiest's orders) of any collegiate. school or college to perform Divine service, for the benefit of the scholars in any suitable room or building in or near the school, eat cpart for that purpose. But the license is not to include the offices of baptism, marriage, or burial. By "collegiate school or college" is to be understood a school incorporated by letters patent, or charter, or by Act of Parliament, for instruction in religious and useful learn. ing in accordance with the doctrines of the Church of England. FEMALE SCHOOL OF ART.—The worshipful Com oany of Drapers has forwarded a donation of 'o the building fund of the Female School of Arts, Queen's quare, and E. Ackzoyd, of the firm of Ackri,yd ani. Son, of Halifax and the City of London, has also sent £5O towards the same object. t i curt ": 't N t° Ortnbr. HER MAJESTY, WINDSOR CASTLE, Saturday: The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Louise, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. The Prince and Princess of Leiningen and the Princess Alberta of Leiningen took leave of her M:.jesty this morning, and left the Castle.. Princess He•iena, attended by Lidy Caroline Bar rington, the Hon. Harriet Phipps, and Lieut. Cal. the Hon. D. De Res, returned to the Castl e this morning at ten minutes Wore twelve. Princess Louis of Hesse, attended by Baroness Von Grancy, Dr, Becker, and Leut. General sir Henry Bentinck, returned at two o'clock. SUNDAY. Her Majesty drove cut yesterday afternoon, ac: companied by her Royal Highness Princess Louis of Hesse, and attended by Lord Charles Fitzroy. Prince Louis of Hesse, attended by Captain Von Wcstt:riveller, arrived at the Castle last night from London. Prince Hermann of Solms, Prince Ysenburg Burding6n, and Count Erbscb, accompanied his Royal Highness, His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by Nl9jor Cowell and Lieutenant Haig, arrived at the Castle shortly before one o'clock. The Queen, their Royal Highnesses Princess Louis of Htsse, Prince Alfred, Princess Helen!, Princess Louise, and Princess Beatrice, the Ladies and Gentlemen in - Waiting, attended Divine ser' vice this morning in the Private Chapel. The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of - Ma sa officiated. The Prince and Princess of Wales. - - The Prince of Wales, accompanied by Pri nce Alfred and Prince ',Dills of Hesse, and attended by Lieut.-Colonel Keppel, Major Cowell, and Lieu t. Haig, went to Chatham on Saturday morning to witness the siege operations. The Princess of Wales took a carriage drive, 11c4 companied by Princess Mary of Cambridge. The Prince and Princess of W a l es , accompani ed by Prince Alfred and Prince Adolphus of Meek'el l : burg-Strelitz, went to the Italian Opera, Garden, in the evening, attended by the Counte6s of Morton and Licut.-Colonel Keppel. The Prince and Princess of Wales, with Lady Morton Morton and Lieut.-C o lon e l K e pp e l i n W a iting, ' 4 tended Divine service at the Chapel Royal, S t * Sames's, yesterday morning. The Communion Service was read by the rLi 3V. the Subdeen and the Rev. R. C. Packman. The R9V. the Subdean preached the sermon fr om St. Luke, ch. x., v. 41, 42. Anthem, "I have set God alway before me. "--. Goldwin. Sung by Masters Collier and F.nris towe, and by Messrs. R. Barnby, T. Foster, Monte Smith, and Lewis Thomas. Mr. Goss presided un the organ. The Archbishop of Armagh, the Bisbop ° f Oxford, EAri St. Germains, Vic , Juiat SydneY , M.irquis of alai, Marquis of Camden, the E 4 r l Money, E Lucan, the Eirl of Longford, Viscount Hardinge, Lord Campbell, Lord Vivian, and Lord Llanover were present during the service. Death of Lord Adolphus Vane Tempest. A vacancy is occasioned in the representation of the Northern Division of the county of Durham by the death of Lord Adolphus Vane Tempest. His lordship expired on Saturday between twelve and one o'clock, The late lord was the second son of the late Marquis of Londonderry, by his second wife, Frances Anne, daughter and heiress of Sir Harry Vane Tempest. He was born 2d July, 1825, an d married in 1860 Lady Susan Pelham Clinton, the only daughter of the Duke of Newcastle, by whom he leaves an infant daughter, The deceased lord was educated at Eton, and having adopted the army as his future profession, he entered the Scots Fusilier Guards as ensign in April, 1843, became lieutenant and captain in May, 1849, and captain and lieu tenant-colonel in December, 1851. He served with his regiment during the Eastern campaign, and received the medal and clasp for the siege and fall of Sebastopol. Soon after his return home from the East in August, 1859, he retired from the service, his parliamentary avocations in terfering with his military duties. In June. 1852, he came forward es a candidate for the city of Durham, but was un successful. However, in the December following he was placed at the head of the poll, but in June was unseated on petition to the House of Commons, a committee declaring him to have been not duly elected. A vacancy having arisen in 1854 in the representation of North Durham by his brother, Lord Seaham, becoming :a peer under the title of Earl Vane on the death of his father, the Mar.. quis of Londonderry, the late Lord Adolphus came for ward and was returned, owing no doubt to the powerful family influence in the county. He has held the so t uninterruptedly ever since. Lord Adolphus supported the Earl of Derby's Government, having come forward on Conservative principles, and voted in favour of that man's Reform Bill. Ho occasion a lly, like many oth er members of the House of Commons, supported Lord P al " merston's Government, and on the memorable divisors on the Chinese war recorded his vote in favour of the G o ' went. By his death the families of the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, the Earl and Countess of Portarlington, ' 4c ' s / are placed in mourning. states- - HER MAJESTY'S STATE BALL,—We are aU til f • rised to state that her Majesty's ball, announced to tak° place on the 27th instant, has been postponed till the 2 9L4 instant. Towards the latter end of next month her Maje st / will go to Osborne, and on the Ist of September the queen will ag, in visit Balmoral.—Court Journal. Theit Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prince ss of Wales have been pleasrd to signify their iotea' tion to honour the grand Caledonian fancy dress ball " their presence this evening at Wi:lis' 11"ta$, King -street, St. James's. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Catn' bridge, the Ouch e 'ss of Cambridge, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Princess Ma.ry of Camb ridge have been invit e d by the ladies patronesses, who numb er 70 ladies connected with the noble and ancient famil ies et Scotland. The ball this year is und e r the distingu ished and immediate pattonav of their Roy a l Highnesse s the Prince and Princess of Wales. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambr id g e, as Field-Marshal Commanding in Chief, and several members of the staff at headquarters, leave town this m ornin g to attend the " public day" at the Royal Military A cademy et Sandhurst. 'Their Royal Highnesses the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of MerAlenburg-Strelitz honoured the Duchess (Emily) of Beaufort with their company at dinner on Saturday evening at the duchess's house in Hill-street. The Duke and Duchess of Be aufort, Lord and Lady Lon desborough, and a select party h a d the honour to meet their royal highnesses. THE EMPEROR AND Eiv,`I'RESS OF MEXICO,--- of Mexico arrived at Jamaica on the 20th in the Austrian Their Imperial Maj esties the Emperor and Empress war steamer Novara, escorted by the French steamer Thereto* Her Majesty's steamer Barracouta conveyed the illustrious personages up the harbour. Ater paying' a visit to M a jor- General Ashmore and to his Excellency the Lieutenant' Governor, the imperial party returned to the wharf, whe re the y took beat for the Barr acou t a , an d were conve yed 199 that vessel back to Port Royal. The party consisted of the En:peror and Empress—Madame la Cometesse Echo, Grand Maite esse of the Intivratrice—Madame la Cometesse Colo nich, Lame d'honneur—and M. I. Velasquez de Le° l4 , Mexican ktinister of State. Their Imperial Majesties la. Port Royal 10r Vera Cruz on the 22d. Prince Peul E,t er hezy returned to tows a Friday night fron.' a short visit to Paris. We are author;sed to ccntradict the a n nOUn C l e: ment made by a cot:temporary that a {{matrimonia alliance is arranged to take place between P rince Pau Esterhazy and Lady Diana Beauclerk, daughter of the Duchess of St. Albans." M. Joaquim de la Quintana an d Madame de la Quintana and family have arrived at the Brunswick ilotels Jermyn-street, from Spain. The Count Richard do Fracomtol a nd M. de Blezzy have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, 'Tern:l ll. street, from Paris. General Comte and Comtesse Sehensteine find family have left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for the Isle of Wight. Viscount and Vieccuntess de Vesci and 1 1 ° 11 ; i Miss Ve s ey are expected to leave town early in t he P resent week for Scotland, to be present at the marriag e of Lord Elphinstone and Lady Constance Murray. The marriage ot Lord Elph inston e and Lad)" Constance Murray, daughter of the Countes s of Dunmorp and sister ot the present peer, is appoint« d to ta k e place a Thursday next at. Duni:acne Park, near Falkirk. 'el Lord and Lady Monteagte h a ve left tile Queen Hotel, Upp e r N o rwood, for Bournemouth. Hotel II Lord F. G. ,Ilyburton has ar r i ved St the dirabeau, Paris, c n his return from Vic h y . Lady Emma Talbot and children have left toWn for Dover.